IMHO the right to revolt against a repressive government is found not in the Constitution but in the Declaration of Independence. The opening sentence, while not as famous as some other sentences, clearly states that the people have the natural right to dissolve an existing political system.
All the Second Amendment does is to give the people the ability to enforce that breakup by giving them the same military capabilities as the stand Federal Army (musket verses musket). If anything, the real impact of the Second Amendment has been severely weakened over the last 200 years.
The Declaration makes the case better, but if course that was its whole point. A decent respect for other people’s opinions compelled us to list our reasons, and blah, blah, blah. The 2nd amendment was under no such burden to explain itself, since it was merely a legal mechanism.
Nevertheless it does justify itself, much moreso than other amendments. What do you think the security of a free state was about? Either domestic insurrection against legitimate government, foreign invasion, or a central government grown destructive if liberty. All of them, actually.
The Declaration makes the case better, but if course that was its whole point. A decent respect for other people’s opinions compelled us to list our reasons, and blah, blah, blah. The 2nd amendment was under no such burden to explain itself, since it was merely a legal mechanism.
Nevertheless it does justify itself, much moreso than other amendments. What do you think the security of a free state was about? Either domestic insurrection against legitimate government, foreign invasion, or a central government grown destructive of liberty. All of them, actually.